Wednesday, January 9th, 2019 Testimony Meeting

At 8:15pm EST every Wednesday, our Testimony Meeting features inspired readings from The Bible and correlative passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and Prose Works by Mary Baker Eddy, as well as testimonies of Christian Science healing and wonderful music. All are welcome to listen and participate!

Theme: God’s Promise is Perfection

Readings: Dede from GA




Hymns

266 146 135

The Bible

Genesis 1:26, 31 (​to first ​.)

26 ​And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
31 ​And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

Luke 6: 1-10, 12-17 (​to ​people) (which)-20

1 ​And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.
2 ​And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
3 ​And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
4 ​How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?
5 ​And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
6 ​And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.
7 ​And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
8 ​But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth.
9 ​Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
10 ​And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
12 ​And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
13 ​And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;
17 ​And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
18 ​And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.
19 ​And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
20 ​And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.

Philippians 3:13-15

13 ​Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 ​I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 ​Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Matthew 5:48

48 ​Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

518: 24 (​to first ​.), 27 (​to first​ .)

Genesis i. 31. And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good.

The divine Principle, or Spirit, comprehends and expresses all, and all must therefore be as perfect as the divine Principle is perfect.

519: 3-6, 9-21

Deity was satisfied with His work. How could He be otherwise, since the spiritual creation was the outgrowth, the emanation, of His infinite self-containment and immortal wisdom?

Thus the ideas of God in universal being are complete and forever expressed, for Science reveals infinity and the fatherhood and motherhood of Love. Human capacity is slow to discern and to grasp God’s creation and the divine power and presence which go with it, demonstrating its spiritual origin. Mortals can never know the infinite, until they throw off the old man and reach the spiritual image and likeness. What can fathom infinity! How shall we declare Him, till, in the language of the apostle, “we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ”?

520:30-521:3

Spirit acts through the Science of Mind, never causing man to till the ground, but making him superior to the soil. Knowledge of this lifts man above the sod, above earth and its environments, to conscious spiritual harmony and eternal being.

253:32-254:2

The divine demand, “Be ye therefore perfect,” is scientific, and the human footsteps leading to perfection are indispensable.

Miscellaneous Writings

46:16-30

It is possible, and it is man’s duty, so to throw the weight of his thoughts and acts on the side of Truth, that he be ever found in the scale with his creator; not weighing equally with Him, but comprehending at every point, in divine Science, the full significance of what the apostle meant by the declaration, “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.” In Science, man represents his divine Principle, — the Life and Love that are God, — even as the idea of sound, in tones, represents harmony; but thought has not yet wholly attained unto the Science of being, wherein man is perfect even as the Father, his divine Principle, is perfect.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

470:21-24, 32- 471:5

God is the creator of man, and, the divine Principle of man remaining perfect, the divine idea or reflection, man, remains perfect. Man is the expression of God’s being. The relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history.




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